Re:Building Together EP 252 — "Collectors Anonymous"

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with cohost Baked (@Bakedmetax) · Sun Jul 5, 2026 · ~16 min · 5 speakers

TL;DR

• A short, loose end-of-Space hang: no agenda, just regulars winding down, arguing about dinner, and comparing NFT bags before everyone scattered to watch the Mexico game.
• toomazing (likely) is officially out of his shell — years of "winning shit" for free in the space have flipped into a spending spree on creeps, kabus, Picassos and mint flips.
• Running theme: nobody's edits or posts get any love, and the whole room feels vaguely shadowbanned by "somebody out there in the world."
• solo dolo (likely) pitched his fantasy football league; CEELOS agreed to sign up if the link gets re-sent, sparking a bit about a 3D-printed championship trophy minted on Polygon.
• CEELOS closed the Space to go watch soccer and get "slot" at a brewery near SpaceX.

Highlights

The pizza trial [0:18] — CEELOS lays out a thought experiment: if he saw solo and toomazing walking down the street and had to guess who says "pizza," he'd bet on toomazing — yet it's solo who butchers it while toomazing nails it. This detonates a whole gentrification argument, solo insisting toomazing is "all gentrified," toomazing countering "I'm from the valley, bro" (answer: "exactly").

Where is SpaceX, exactly [1:50] — CEELOS invites anyone to run into him at Common Space Brewery for the Mexico game. Asked where it is, he can only offer that it's "fried by SpaceX," which helps no one, before landing on Hawthorne and a warning that if Mexico loses, it's "gonna be fun."

The polite kick that never came [4:06] — CEELOS admits he spent the whole space waiting for Baked to boot an interrupting guest ("Who's this girl, bro?") while trying to stay nice. Baked (likely) notes he never had co-host powers long enough to do it anyway.

toomazing's $1.50-to-$10 flip [5:07] — toomazing walks through the mint he almost fatfingered: forgot he followed the project, saw it minting, assumed it'd never sell out, then grabbed one at a dollar-fifty from the gym and watched it climb to ten bucks. His personal ceiling stays firm: "I'm not spending more than two, three dollars on these."

The collection that's just everyone in the room [7:13] — Floor-sweeping turns into a game of spotting each other in the art: a runner-visor trait that's clearly solo "like he ran 15 miles this morning," and a welding-mask piece that's Baked — except, as noted, "he doesn't weld shit."

Show me some love, Papa [9:10] — CEELOS's lament of the night: he keeps making edits for projects like the DDGs, drops them in spaces, and gets one like. "This is not how you build up community for me. Show me some love, Papa. I took some time to make an edit."

Three years winning, now spending [11:40] — CEELOS congratulates toomazing on finally becoming a collector after years of lurking without buying. toomazing reframes it cleanly: "I spent three years in the space winning shit, and now I'm spending shit."

Fantasy league diplomacy [13:38] — solo's league resurfaces; toomazing having ignored the signup link gets called out until solo delivers the ledger: "You don't want to sign up for my fantasy league. Why am I gonna sign up for yours?" CEELOS agrees to join sight-unseen.

The Polygon trophy bit [14:02] — solo floats 3D-printing a kabu-with-a-football championship trophy, which spirals into a gag about minting it on the cheapest possible chain — Polygon, then ape chain, then a straight-faced "next year, championship moving to E."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "If I saw these two guys walking down the street and somebody asked which one says pizza, I'd point at too amazing. I'm shocked that solo says pizza." — CEELOS (likely) [0:18]
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• "So where the fuck is SpaceX?" — toomazing (likely) [2:06]
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• "I spent three years in the space winning shit, and now I'm spending shit." — toomazing (likely) [11:59]
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• "This is not how you build up community for me. Show me some love, Papa. I took some time to make an edit." — CEELOS (likely) [9:10]
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• "You don't want to sign up for my fantasy league. Why am I gonna sign up for yours?" — solo dolo (likely) [13:38]
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• "I kinda want a muscle one, but I don't got muscles, so why the fuck am I getting one?" — CEELOS (likely) [13:05]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG), host (SPEAKER_01, confirmed): Ran and closed the Space, played straight man and hype man, mourned his unloved edits, and cheerfully hunted floor traits he'll never buy.
• toomazing™️ (@TooMazing265), likely (SPEAKER_02): The night's collector — flipping mints, stacking creeps and kabus, and finally spending after years of freebies. Native Spanish speaker, proudly "from the valley."
• solo dolo (@solodolo), likely (SPEAKER_03): Pizza-pronunciation defendant, fantasy-league commissioner, and dreamer of a custom 3D-printed championship trophy.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax), likely (SPEAKER_05): Cohost who never quite got the co-host button in time to kick anyone.
• SPEAKER_04 (possibly SAM): Early food-and-Japan tangents ("It's a stew… you don't understand Rastafari") before fading from the main NFT talk.

Worth a full listen

• [0:04–1:05] — The curry-vs-stew opener rolling straight into the pizza pronunciation trial and gentrification banter; the rhythm of old friends talking over each other doesn't compress well.
• [7:13–8:48] — The rapid-fire trait-spotting run where every NFT somehow resembles someone in the room (welding-mask Baked, runner-visor solo) — better heard than summarized.
• [13:58–14:49] — The trophy-minting escalation, from Polygon to ape chain to "championship moving to E," is a full deadpan crescendo worth the replay.